Al DiMeola - Winter Nights (rel.1999)

Front Cover	Album Info
	Artist/Composer Al DiMeola Title Winter Nights Length 51:57 Discs: 1 Tracks: 15 Format LQ <160 kbps Packaging Slim case Label Telarc Jazz Cat. Number 83458 Style Fusion; World Fusion Rating N/A

Musicians	Credits
Al DiMeola guitars, various Hernan Romero guitar, percussion Roman Hrynkiv bandura	Producer Al DiMeola Engineer Spyros Poulos Engineer Rich Tozzoli

Track list

01 Zima (DiMeola) 04:11 02 Carol Of The Bells 04:17 03 Winterlude Duet No.1 (DiMeola/Hrynkiv) 01:30 04 Greensleeves 02:51 05 Mercy Street (Gabriel) 04:57 06 Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Blane/Martin) 04:35 07 Winterlude No.2 (Hrynkiv) 00:55 08 Midwinter Nights (DiMeola) 04:54 09 Scarborough Fair (Garfunkel/Simon) 04:40 10 Winterlude No.3 (Hrynkiv) 00:49 11 The First Noel (Sandys) 03:18 12 Inverno (DiMeola) 05:44 13 First Snow (DiMeola) 02:47 14 Winterlude No.4 (DiMeola) 01:36 15 Ave Maria (Schubert) 04:53

Notes

Amg Review (3): Al Di Meola's first so-called Christmas album is a relaxed, flowing, intensely musical affair that jazzers, world music buffs, and New Agers will feel equally comfortable with. Mostly, he steers away from the often-cracked chestnuts, composing several nice tunes of his own ("Zima," the leadoff cut, is especially inviting), playing acoustic guitar and a battery of percussion instruments and keyboards in a graceful, one-man-band, thanks to multi-track tape. Other tracks feature duets between Di Meola (with overdubbed additional instruments) and Roman Hrynkiv, who plays a Ukrainian zither-like instrument called the bandura. For the die-hard consumer who must have those carols, there are intricate renditions of "The First Noel," "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas," and "Carol Of The Bells." — Richard S. Ginell